I’ve received word that Herman and Yustinian, at this moment, are having a private confab. Herman didn’t serve at the liturgy this morning, but he was present in the church (my source wasn’t clear on whether or not he was in the altar). The pot’s simmering, kids…
BMD
Be prepared for all sorts of self-justifying crapola from the First Families later today. More and more, this appears to be a farcical Ruritanian coup, not a serious change of administration. The Centre hasn’t committed itself, yet…
There’s nothing surfacing on JP, yet. NOTHING. NOT A THING. SILENCE. Ergo, all the speculation should cease until we all get some more solid intel to go on. However, there’s been some reaction to Yustinian serving with Herman Swaiko:
I hope that you aren’t suggesting that Herman might be reinstated in Jonah’s place? In some ways, he might have been superior, I think the community in general would get whiplash trying to assimilate such a turn of events.
My reply was:
It means that the Centre is no longer publicly behind JP. As for anything else, my Russian contacts are just as flummoxed as anyone else is. There’s no news, that’s all one can say of the matter. Just sit tight…
My take, based on the information available at present, is that the move against JP is a First Family coup led by pukes such as Kishkovsky and Potapov. They saw JP dragging them under, so they launched a putsch. Whether this is Red October or the Beer Hall Putsch remains to be seen. It’s very poorly executed; the fact is that the putschists have no “narrative” in place to explain their seizure of power. Indeed, they’re acting like the loony August putschists in 1991… that led to the fall of the USSR. Shall this lead to the OCA‘s fall, as well? One can only hope…
BMD
Click here for a news report on suspended OCA Deacon Michael Pasonick getting a year’s worth of the slam and a 250 G fine (rather a “slap on the wrist, if you were to ask me). Earlier, I wrote:
The Feds found Deacon Michael Pasonick guilty on corruption charges and his lawyer’s pulling shyster tricks in an attempt to keep him out of the slam. Click here for a link to back what I’m saying. Once there, look on the right-hand side of the webpage, it’ll give you all the info that you need to access more information on this scumbag. The good word has it that Fr John Kowalczyk wanted Posonick made a priest. The buzz is that Kowalcyk’s Herman’s spy (Hermie’s Uriah Heep, if you will)… several sources tell me that Kowalczyk was snooping around on Memorial Day (is Herman the real OCA bishop in Eastern PA?)… tells you volumes, no? Some say that Kowalcyk’s a major problem in Eastern PA… Tikhon Mollard is a gutless Cadillac Escalade-driving punk… he lets Kowalczyk run the store.
At that time, a kitchen cabinet member sent me this:
You know, some time ago you wrote that the whole “old order” as we knew it (with its respective ROCOR and OCA royal families and Good Ole Boys clubs, etc) is collapsing, and that something completely new is emerging in its place. This is precisely right. The problem is that the members of said royal families, Good Ole Boys clubs, et al, know this as well, and they’re terrified. The notion of a world where being Schmemann’s grandniece-in-law twice removed, or an Ossorgin relation, or whatever will not settle an argument is too much for them to handle.
I withheld comment on l’Affaire Pasonick for a few days for two main reasons:
As for the first proposition, does it surprise anyone that oca.org said NOTHING, not even a “we’re not responsible for Mr Pasonick’s actions, and they don’t reflect on the OCA”. This has become all too familiar… Fathausen always DENIES. He’s a juvenile self-centred dweeb, who refuses to reply to people that he finds inconvenient, who simply lies when confronted with previous statements and actions. It’s following a pattern. Fathausen refused to publicise his suspension of Ray Velencia. Fathausen refused to allow publication of the Holy Synod‘s actions against Dickie Wood. Now, Fathausen refuses to speak when a former OCA clergyman goes to the slammer. Ray Velencia calls himself “Father Raymond Velencia” in his court papers, yet, as a disgraced and suspended clergyman, that’s not appropriate, fitting, or truthful. I’d say that ANY judge would perk up his ears if he heard that Sir Ray was no longer a priest in good standing… it’d torpedo his case for sure, and the shit would hit the fan, spraying the OCA apparat with its noisome ordure. Oh… I was NOT called by the OCA Holy Synod for anything connected with his suspension… I thought that you’d like to know that. THIS is what Fathausen’s brought the OCA… secrecy, duplicity, and a noxious hyper-clericalism. The upshot of all of this has been that a priest was sued during the first week of the Great Lent by another priest… THAT’S the bitter fruit of Fathausen’s thumb-sucking California New Age blather. Is this what YOU want?
As for the second point, I received the following from a kitchen cabinet member:
I think that he’ll face a spiritual court and be defrocked. He’s dirty. Some were pressuring the bishop to ordain him to the priesthood because he was a big donor to STS. [Pasonick’s] attached to the OCA cathedral in Wilkes-Barre PA, and was on the STS Board of Trustees for many years. He was a student at STS, years ago, and provided some of the funds for the new dorms and bookstore. However, somebody told the bishop that [Pasonick] was secretly cooperating with FBI, so he didn’t ordain him.
You can believe that or not, as you will. As for me, I find it very probable. Oh… one last thing… Pasonick served as a deacon with Fathausen at St Tikhon’s Memorial Day 2010 when Fathausen concelebrated openly and freely with Feodosy Lazor and Herman Swaiko. Remember that whenever you hear fulminations about homosexuality from ANY OCA hierarch. If “birds of a feather” flock together, what does that tell you about Fathausen’s proclivities? Methinks the pot doth call the kettle black…
Barbara-Marie DrezhloSunday 11 March 2012
Albany NY
1987
Editor’s Foreword:
The following is an e-mail sent by Kristine Koumentakos to the website Orthodox Christians for Accountability. I believe that you must hear this in her words. If the situation of Ms Koumentakos doesn’t move you to tears and righteous anger, you have a heart of stone. This is disgusting. Clergy shouldn’t hurt people by exposing their private lives to public obloquy. There’s an unhealthy clericalism foreign to a true Churchly-spirit afoot in the Church at present. We either speak out or we show ourselves in favour of such by our complicit silence. No matter what the cost, I won’t be silent. I might only be a “little person” of no influence, but my duty’s clear. I’ll take my stand. What about you?
If not you and me… then, WHO?
I would like to express my sincere congratulations to the Diocese of Washington and the OCA on the election of Fr Raymond Velencia to the Metropolitan Council. Included in the Very Reverend Velencia’s lengthy list of commendable accomplishments is sending every single excruciating detail of my personal history, shared with him in confession and counselling over the course of our 15 year relationship, in an e-mail to approximately 40 individuals I’d never met. People who had no right to the information. They were bishops and clergy and lay members of the Metropolitan Council. Obviously, I did not give my authorisation for him to do this.
He did it in an effort to humiliate, intimidate, and discredit me. His e-mail did not address my allegations of his misconduct. He had nothing else with which to fight my allegations, so, he grossly abused his power and position, knowing that I was already vulnerable (based on my history), knowing that I had a baby to care for, without regard to the harm he would be inflicting. His e-mail also went to Mark Stokoe, editor of this website, a full year BEFORE Mark was elected to the Metropolitan Council himself with the intention of getting my highly personal information further published and distributed.
The Very Rev Fr Alexey Karlgut “investigated” the matter and when I refused to sign a release for the OCA, the investigation was over. In his findings, Fr Alexey impersonated a legal professional, further intimidated me with my personal information, stated that “no one came forward to verify my allegations of the violation of my confession”. Which was interesting given that he never contacted my witnesses or noted my witness statements. Which included a written statement from a previous Board Member of St Matthew House who reported that the Very Rev Fr Velencia had violated my confidentiality to her.
I will not be silent. Not anymore. I have tried for almost 4 years to resolve this matter. All I ever wanted was for the church to intervene in a very abusive situation. All I ever wanted was accountability, correction, prevention. Sadly, I was told [by] high-ups in the OCA itself that I would get nowhere without a lawsuit. I have been open to settling the matter several times. What prevented that process [were] megalomaniacal demands from Fr Ray for me never to set foot in his church again, for example. The Circuit Court for Howard County dismissed my complaint against the OCA, the diocese, the Very Reverend Constantine White, St Matthew church, and the former Metropolitan Herman on the basis of First Amendment rights for hierarchical churches to self-govern, even if, as the local attorney for the church said, “the priest is bad”. It was NOT dismissed on the merits of the case.
The case is a matter of public record and I will be posting the motions for summary judgment filed by the OCA and the diocese, as well as the affidavits filed by Herman, Constantine White, and Joseph Lickwar, for your information. I will also post the transcripts from the hearings we had. You should be aware of the tactics used by the church to escape responsibility. Even if you DO NOT CARE, which has become evident to me and to my family.
The Circuit Court judge continued my complaint against St Matthew House and Fr Ray as President of the Board for the wrongful termination of my employment and for discrimination based on sex (pregnancy) which means we are still in litigation. In addition, we will likely appeal the Circuit Court’s decision regarding the church portion of the case as the judge was wrong in his overly broad application of the First Amendment. Reading the transcript of the hearings as well as attached legal research will speak for itself. I will not be silent.
Again, congratulations.
17 September 2009
Editor’s Afterword:
This is Ms Koumentakos’ text, with only two grammatical corrections (both marked off by brackets: 1. “My” is obviously a mistype for “by” 2. “Was” was used where “were” was appropriate). Misspellings have been corrected.
Who is next? Is it me? Is it you? THIS is how the sodomite cabal has kept power all these years. It isn’t afraid to hurt people. True, it doesn’t beat them or kill them. It does something WORSE. It does its best to destroy and trash their reputations. I know full-well about this… it isn’t theory for me! The evil triumph because the good do nothing.
If not me and you… then WHO?
BMD
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